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Does the SPCA say that snake charming is science?

Let me tell you my funny story about the SPCA's dog assessment testing. I was trying to adopt a dog at the Vancouver SPCA, just a little thing barely bigger than a minute, but it was so frightened of where it was that sometimes it bit strange hands that reached for it. The person doing the SPCA's scientific test on this dog, to determine if it lived or died, was a nice young man who said to me, I don't know why I'm being told to do this, all I've ever owned is snakes that I trained to do tricks.

Does the SPCA say that snake charming is science? Well why not...it says its dog assessment test is science.

This nice (confused) young man said that if the dog bit the vet when it went to be neutered at the SPCA clinic that it would be put down for sure. A ten pound dog? I'm still scratching my head over that one! I did get the dog thank god, but it took a lot of begging. He still wasn't neutered (I guess they were all too afraid of him) so I took him to my own vet who was unperturbed about the possibly of being savaged by a ten pound dog.

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Can or should the BC SPCA be saved from itself?
I too wonder, like many others if the SPCA needs such a major overhaul that it perhaps can't be done
Until the management of the BC SPCA, an organization that is fuelled by donor dollars and provincial funding, is truly proactive in managing a responsible and ethical business
Can or Should the BC SPCA Be Saved?
If Only we Could Ask Those it Claims to Speak For...
I agree wholeheartedly that a strong SPCA is what's needed. My experience with the BCSPCA goes back to approximately 1986, when I became involved with the Horse Protection Society of BC
We are really making a difference for these cats, not just sweeping the problem of abandoned cats under the carpet by killing them all
The Fraser Valley Humane Society here in Mission is piloting a programme to have all cats neutered or spayed
I personally do not believe the SPCA should be saved in it's present form
I want to know why does the SPCA keeps saying that they have this great relationship with so many dog rescue groups
Does the SPCA say that snake charming is science?
Is this just Utopia? Or can we really make it work?
Re: Is this just Utopia? Or can we really make it work? *LINK* *PIC*
AAS is often asked by people if they should discontinue donating to the SPCA *LINK* *PIC*
Being in the media, I can see that the SPCA has lost some ground
Another quote from a media person...
Shame on the System, shame on us...
Anger is a waste of energy: I only ever wanted the corruption to end: AAS successes *LINK*
If the members do actually want change then they CAN make it happen through the existing system!

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